Summary

A YouGov poll found that 46% of Danes view the US as a major threat, surpassing concerns about North Korea and Iran but trailing Russia (86%).

Additionally, 78% oppose selling Greenland to the US, though 72% believe Greenland should decide its own fate.

The poll follows heightened tensions over Trump’s repeated claims that acquiring Greenland is an “absolute necessity” for US economic security.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has sought European unity in response, warning of shifting relations with the US.

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    Can someone poll Americans cause I vehemently oppose the purchase and subjugation of Greenland. And I also vote Trump gets run over by a train.

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        I get started then lose focus and start watching anime. See, this is why Americans need immigrant labor.

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        I’ve been looking for any possible way that an average Joe can make a difference and havent been able to come up with any plan. So now I have one. Will go out after work and see about buying a train.

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      Trump does not want Greenland, never did. He also doesn’t care about the gulf of Mexico or Panama cannel.

      It’s just a distraction and negative media overload method that he uses. And you know what, it works. Here we are talking about this and not the serious things.

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        As a European, I would say a US president repeatedly theatening a EU country with invasion is already pretty serious in itself.

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        He has done a lot of stuff that people thought was just talk. It’s easy to sit there and say it’s just talk when it is not about you. But when it is, it just ‘oh well, they should have known because he said so’ from others…

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    As an American, I agree, who the fuck cares of that orange turd wants it. He’s a monster

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      The article doesn’t show the full data but there’s probably a good chunk of “don’t know / not sure” in that 22%.

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      There’s always about 25-30% insane people in every population. It’s roughly the same percentage of Canadians who are SOMEHOW pro-US invasion of Canada

      It’s insanity

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        It’s roughly the same percentage of Canadians who are SOMEHOW pro-US invasion of Canada

        Yeah, I noticed some of those users when blocking a bunch of magas elsewhere, and it was very o_O to see, too.

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      72% would let Greenland have the decision some of them might not want to give their own opinion or simple don’t have one

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        22% think the pollster is a CIA operative. 6% can’t wait to become a fascist Andorian hellscape because surely they’ll be billionaires then.

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      Some of them might not be sure or not care. A small percentage of around 5 percent can always be found to support pretty much anything in amy type of poll

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      I live in Denmark, and was at a farm store, where the attendant said that musk did not do a nazi salute. I then jumped in and said “well, let’s see your do that”, which she did, and none of the others reacted to a girl in her late teens doing a nazi salute. You have no idea how many supports AfD and Trump has in Denmark…

      Where i work, there’s about 120 employees. 5 of them loves Trump, and one even proudly wears a MAGA hat. It’s a fucking shit show in the country side.

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        Do the schools teach history well in Denmark? Part of the problem in the USA is that people simply don’t know the history of Nazism and the Holocaust.

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          I’m Norwegian, so the educational system is basically the same. Though, I’m not sure about today, but growing up in the 90’s, we learned a lot about WW2, including pictures of when our elementary school was overtaken by the Nazis, so you’d think they’d be aware of it.

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      Except it’s nearly half, meaning the majority do not see the U.S. as a threat.

      And they should, because it is. To the world.

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          A YouGov poll found that 46% of Danes view the US as a major threat, surpassing concerns about North Korea and Iran but trailing Russia (86%).

          That is less than half.

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    Calm everyone. Trump does not want Greenland, never did. He also doesn’t care about the gulf of Mexico or Panama cannel.

    It’s just a distraction and negative media overload method that he uses. And you know what, it works. Here we are talking about this and not the serious things.

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      It’s just a distraction and negative media overload method that he uses. And you know what, it works. Here we are talking about this and not the serious things.

      Doesn’t matter if it’s a distraction or not. If Trump takes Greenland it will break NATO completely, and when Trump threatens to take Greenland, it weakens NATO and that can lead to all sorts of problems … just not necessarily for the US.